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Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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Playwright
Poet
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.
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If it were a dog, it would have bitten you already. Actual Twents: At e ne hond was, dan e oew allange ebettene. Meaning: Said to someone who is looking for something which is right under his nose. Source: Twents Woordenbook. Twents in Woord en Gebruik.
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I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.
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God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew.
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There are tones of voices that mean more than words.
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Nothing not built with hands of course is sacred. But here is not a question of what's sacred Rather of what to face or run away from. I'd hate to be a runaway from nature.
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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
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If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
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And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion and then there's science and there's-and then there's friendly gossip. Those are the three-the three great things.
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I see for Nature no defeat In one tree's overthrow Or for myself in my retreat For yet another blow.
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All the fun is in how you say a thing.
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Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.
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I never take my own side in a quarrel.
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The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.
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Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist.
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The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
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Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.
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The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...
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We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.
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When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.
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